To make a nation
Subtitle: the rediscovery of American federalism
By: Samuel H. Beer.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Federal government -- United States -- History.; Political science -- United States -- History.; Political science -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-457) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rule of the wise and the holy : Thomas Aquinas; title: The idea of the national republic : John Milton; title: A constitution for the national republic : James Harrington; title: The conflict of ideas; title: The decade of agitation; title: The discovery of the nation; title: Montesquieu's confederate republic; title: Madison's compound republic; title: Auxiliary precautions; title: Sovereignty and ratification; title: James Wilson's social union; title: Conclusion : liberty and union.